The New Season
Rather, they are likely to be more interested in what we can say about the forthcoming season and the type of cricket we can expect and when it will start, with this being potentially as soon as seven weeks from tomorrow. These are of course decisions too early to call and we await guidance from the ECB. It remains to be seen whether some idea of the way forward will come out of the Prime Minister's mooted 'roadmap' to normality which is expected to be announced next week.

A Grant to Improve the Car Park
We have however been looking at what we can do to improve the facilities through the activities of the Sports Association. For one, we would all like to see substantial improvements to the car park and the SSA is applying for a grant to resurface all or part of the area which supports many tens of thousands of visits each year to enjoy the facilities of the Club.

Immediate Car Parking Improvements
The outcome of that proposal remains to be seen. We are however able to do something at least to address the absence of the old car park markings. These have disappeared along with the top surface of the car park over the years, and have resulted in some very inefficient parking. In order to make an immediate inroad into the problem at a modest cost timbers have been laid out along the centre line as shown in the image above utilising a simple, and much tried and tested, solution. Thanks are due to our groundsman Gavin Spencer in carrying out this work.

How Members Can Help
Members are invited to park right up to the boundary edges around the outside of the car park and as close as possible to the centre line of the car park now denoted by the timbers and flags shown in the image above when using the centre area.

The Club would also ask members to respect the signs asking that they park with the front end, rather than the exhausts, of their cars facing the Bowling Green when parking on the eastern boundary.